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83rd Year E s tab lish ed April, 1877, as The Sunbeam
(Consolidated with The I iitlts Record, 1937) Lititz, Lancaster Co., Pa., Thursday, October 15, 1959 7 cen ts a Copy; $3.00 per y e a r by mall
within L a n c a s te r County; $ 3 :5 0 elsewhere. No. 26
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United Drive Nears 60% Of Quota
‘Monster’ Rumors
R unning Rampant
BIG TRANSACTION
They |>ullr<l an intside job at t-lie Farmers National Bank
last week, but everything was legal. Top photo shows cement
contractor Ira Ycagley “casing” a hole workmen made in the
front of the bank to install a new day and night depository.
At the bottom workmen maneuver the 600-pound depository
into place while a curious bystander wonders what it’s all
about.
Warwick Clâsses Name
Officers For 1 9 5 9 -6 0
Election of class officers
and Student Council at War­wick
High School was held
last week for the 1959-60
school term.
Elected president of the
senior class was Fred Johns.
Vice-president is Melvin
Jones; secretary, Marion Getz;
treasurer, Richard ftader and
Student Council members,
Carole Dennis, John Landis,
Leslie Reinhard and Velma
Willis. Student Council rep­resentatives
at large are Bar­ton
Gibble and George Male.
Officers of the junior class
are Robert Posey, president;
Richard Ruhl, vice-president;
Rochelle Pelger, secretary;
Martha Gundrum, treasurer
and Harlan .llleacheer, Sue
Hosier, Hick Minnich, Mary
Seaber, student council with
at-large representatives, Phyl-
■—,11s Hall and Barbara Johnson.
Joseph Doster was elected
president of the sophomore
WINS AWARD
- r Clyde Forney
Warwick Youth
Wins Award For
Swine Producing
\ A member of Warwick Fu­ture
Farmers of America Chap­ter
won the county’s and the
region's top award as a swine
producer for the York-Lancas-tsr
County area.
'The youth is Clyde Forney,
sop of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Forney, Lititz R4, who is a jun­ior
at Warwick High School.
He received a $50 government
bond as regional champion and
a $25 bond for taking the
county title.
The vcontest, sponsored by
Sears Roebuck, is open to all
I' FA boys in the York and Lan­caster
County areas, and the
swine raised by Forney came
from a litter farrowed by gifts
from the firm which it makes
to FFA chapters.
/ In addition to the prize-winning
entry, Forney, who
farms the Carl Huber farm
along with Kenneth Binkley,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Binkley, Lititz R4, has five
other sows and has fattened
about 80 other pigs.
class, William Lindeman, vVe-president;
Marcia Meiskey,
secretary and Philip Mummert,
treasurer. Student Council
representatives are James
Diehitt, Anne Huber, Lester
Nagle, Peggy Neideigh, and
Donna Slagel with Linda
Wertsch, representative at
large.
Heading the freshman class
is John Sheaffer, president;
Linda Miller, vice-president;
Sue Minnich, secretary; and
Becky Newcomer, treasurer.
Barbara Adams, Mary Ann
Fasnacht, Beryl Klopp, Mar­sha
Male and Donna Rosen­berg
were elected to council
with Linda Ulrich the at-large
member. •
Michael Allebach was elect­ed
president of the eighth
grade, Connie Hagy, vice-pres­ident;
Patty Adams, secretary
and Julia Stoyanovitch, treas­urer.
On the council are Donna
Bachman, Cheryl Good, Lynn
Hollingsworth, Richard Neid-fermyer,
Connie Showers and
Lynn Welch.
Seventh graders elected
Robert Rosenberg as presi­dent,
Richard Posey, vice-presideht,
Richard Posey, vice-president;
Trina Leed, secre­tary
and Diana Davidson,
treasurer. Ann Gearhart, Ray­mond
Hehnly, Lindell'Landis,
Tom Murr, Fred Sample and
Linda Willis, council mem­bers.
Elections were conducted
much like municipal elections,
with judges voiding improper­ly
marked ballots.
Sportsmen Elect
Officers Monday
. Lititz Sportsmen’s Assn,
will elect officers at a meet­ing
Monday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m.
at the American Legion.
All local club nrembers were
urged to attend. Refreshments
will he served following the
business meeting.
If you’re ever out west of
town, look out for tbe “mon­ster”.
That’s the word from the
younger set of the borough
which has been buzzing for
the past week about an un­known
something or other
which reportedly haunts the
area between here and Man-heim.
Description of the thing,
like hu lk , witli the face of a
dog.
Several groups of young­sters
have reportedly gone
“monster” liiinting and said
they found large footprints,
sinking several inches into
tl>e ground.
The Record lias been unable
to locate any peirsons who
actually saw the “monster” but
one report is that it raced
gleaned from persons who through a field of standing
talked to persons who saw it
pretty generally establish it
as being a huge white beast-
Trophy To
Memorialize
Late Coach
A trophy memorializing
Warwick’s late head football
coach, Bernard J. “Bernie”
Rider, will be put into circula­tion
in the Football Confer­ence
of the Roses this year.
Members of the former
South Central Pennsylvania
Coaches Assn, will purchase
the trophy which will be given
to the outstanding lineman in
the conference. It will be
known as the “Bernie Rider
Memorial Trophy”.
Rider was a member of the
coaches group which has not
been active lately, but which
is still organized. The idea of
memorializing him in that
manner was fostered by Step­hen
J. Palkovi, Lititz, who
is an assistant coach at Man-heim
Twp. High School.
Palkovic contacted members
of the association who were
unanimous in their desire to
set up the memorial trophy.
Any lineman in the county
is eligible to receive it, and
nominations for the award
will be made by the coaches
of the county high school
teams. Qualifications for nom­ination
include a player’s
ability, attitude scholastic
standing, and sportsmanship.
At the end of the season
the nominations will be judg­ed
on a point system basis
and the presentation will be
made at a meeting of the
Lititz Lions Club, of which
the late Coach Rider was a
member.
corn, knocking down a path
several feet wide.
Rumors of it have led many
of the younger teenagers to
exert caution in venturing out
at night. One local mother has
had trouble getting her son to
go outside to turn out a gar­age
light after dark, because
of the monster stories.
Recreation Director William
Bell says he has heard a lot
of talk about the “monster”
among the youngsters, most
of whom have heard of but
not yet seen it.
Adding to the tales of the
“monster” was G. Nevin Bow­man,
Lititz R2, who facetious­ly
remarked yesterday that it
rushed by his place and he
took several shots at it, but
could find nothing later.
Oct. 15, today, marks the beginning of
National Newspaper Week, and the pieture
above shows Record-Erpress carrier boy Den­nis
Ober, far right, settling up his weekly
account with bookkeeper, Mrs. Franklin
Schleilli. Lending moral support to Dennis
are Ted and Johnny Rosenberg as the big
transaction is completed. Carrier boys are
an important part of the distribution of the
Record, averaging over BOO sales a week__
Senior Citizens
Meet Tonight
The Senior Citizens of the
Lititz Recreation , Center will
hold their monthly meeting,
Thursday, October 15 at 6:00
P.M.
This will be a covered dish
dinner and each member Is
asked to bring a visitor who
will be eligible to become a
member.
Anybody over 60 years of
age may become a member of
this group. Meetings are held
the third Thursday of each
month.
PAPER COLLECTION
Boy Scout Troop 42 will
have a paper collection on Sat­urday,
October 31st. They will
aiso have a week-end campout
this week-end with their Scout­master,
Nevin Bowman and as­sistant
Bion Hartman.
Senior Scouts Spend
Weekend A t Washington
Senior Girl Scout Troop
122, Lititz, spent last week­end
at Camp Rockwood, a
national Girl Scout Camp near
Washington, D.C. The girls
left Lititz about 8:00 a.m.
Saturday in three cars driven
by Dr. and Mrs. James Shank,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pelger,
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Snyder.
The group arrived- in
Washington shortly before
noon, ate their nose-bag lunch­es
in a park, and spent the
afternoon sight seeing in
Washington.
They visited the Lincoln
Memorial, the Washington
Monument, the Taft Memor­ial!
and the Capitol building.
They also stopped to see the
grave of the Unknown soldier
at Arlington Memorial Ceme­tery.
The troop arrived at the
primitive area of Camp Rock-wood
about 5:00 p.m. The
girls unpacked, set up their
tents, dug trenches around
the tents, prepared and serv­ed
the evening meal at 6:00
p.m. ’ A Camp Fire program
was presented in the evening.
The group worshipped at
the Washington Cathedral on
Sunday morning and following
the services they weere taken
on a tour of this magnificent
building. The girls then re­turned
to Rockwood, prepar­ed
dinner and then cleaned up
the site and packed their
things for the return trip.
During their stay at Camp
Rockwood they took a trip to
the Chesapeake and Ohio Can­al,
from where they hiked
about one half mile to view
the Great Falls, a natural
phenomenon of extreme beau­ty.
The weekend trip was plan­ned
to give the girls experi­ence
in setting up a campsite.
Troop 122 is planning a
camping trip to Canada for
the summer of 1960. Leaders
of the troop are Mrs. Shank
and Mrs. Pelger.
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Mrs. Bela Vassady
Woman’s Club To
Hear Talk By
Mrs, Vassady
Mrs* Bela Vassady of Lan­caster,
will speak of her ex­periences
in “Glimpses Be­hind
the Iron Curtain” at the
regular monthly meeting of
the Lititz Woman’s Club to
be held on Monday, October
I9th at 8:00 p.m. at the Gen­eral
Sutter Hotel.
Serena Vassady is a native
of Hungary and came to the
United States in 1947. In
Hungary, at the age of 18,
she was already a well-known
poet, having won first prize in
a nation wide literary contest.
When she was 2 2 she publish­ed
her first book, of poems.
She studied philosophy and
languages at the 4 00-year old
Reformed College in Debre­cen.
W
hile a student, she met
and married her husband. Dr.
Bela Vassady, who had been
a theological professor at
three seminaries of the Re­formed
Church in Hungary
and finally president of the
Theological Seminary in De­brecen.
The Vassadys, with their
three children, Naomi, Beela
Jr., and Timea, went through
the horrors of World War II,
including the siege of Buda­pest
in their native Hungary.
In April 1946, Dr. Vassady
left his family in war-torn
Hungary, . crossed the Iron
Curtain, and came to the
United States and Canada for
a twenty month speaking tour
under the auspices of the
World Council of Churches.
Mrs. Vassady with their three
children remained at home.
She became the vice-presi­dent
of the Women’s Federa­tion
of the Reformed (Presby­terian)
Church of Hungary,(an
organization of about a half
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SURGICAL PATIENT
Carolyn Smith, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Smith
is a surgical patient at the
Lancaster General Hospital.
RUMMAGE SALE
The Ladies Aid Society of
Trinity E.C. Church will have
an all day Rummage Sale Fri­day,
October 16, at the Odd
Fellows Hall, N. Broad Street.
Main Street
Spurs Sales
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Retailers Hear
Light Proposal
Members of the Lititz Re­tailers
Asn. heard an outline
of Pennsylvania Power and
Light Co’s proposal for new
downtown street llighting Mon­day,
and said it will inform
borough council of its feeling
on them.
Council, several weeks ago,
heard the proposal and called
for public opinion on the pro­posed
change. It will probably
act on the power company
proposal at its October 27
meeting.
C. G. Long of P.P.&L. ex­plained
the plan to the retailers
who had invited a company
representative to their meeting.
Tt would provide more light
for the central Lititz area at
an increased cost to the
borough of $26.90 monthly..
Youfh Fellowship
Car Wash Saturday
Members of the Moravian
Youth Fellowship will hold a
car wash Saturday from 10 a.m.
to. 3 p.m.
Proceeds from the project
will be used for youth activities
during the season. Cars will be
washed at the Dick Minnich
home, 410 Woodcrest Ave.,
where a supply of well water
is available.
Cost will be $1.25 plus 25c j
for white wall tires. Youth Fel­lowship
members will pick up
and deliver cars. Persons wish­ing
to aid the group project
should phone MA 6-2559 for
pickup and delivery.
SQUIRE HERR HOME
J. B. Herr, justice of the
peace and secretary of the
Warwick School Board, re­turned
home Monday, follow­ing
major surgery at the Uni­versity
of Pennsylvania Hos­pital,
$13,993 Floor Done
But Boiler On Blink
The borough’s $13,993 re­pair
job to tlie fire house floor
is completed but Borough
Council met in special session
last night to wrestle with a
new problem—a broken heat­ing
unit.
The boiler which furnished
heat for the borough office and.
building cracked Monday and
in the interim electric space
heaters are being used. Coun-
Club Told
Russia Need
More Goods
Russians today are much
more concerned over getting
more consumer' goods than
they are in regaining personal
liberties, Amos Herr, East
Hempfield High School teach­er,
informed Rotarians Tues­day
evening.
Herr, who toured Russia
last summer with an American
church, group, spoke before a
joint meeting of the Lititz
and East Petersburg Rotary
Clubs held in the General
Sutter-Hotel.
Protestants and Catholics
alike are permitted to worship
in Russia today but none can
do any missionary work, be
addressed by any but their
regular pastors nor hold pray­er
or other meetings outside
the church buildings, he ex­plained.
Moscow is the showplace
but even Moscow contains
hundreds of log homes. The
Russian may have made great
strides in science but he is a
poor organizer and it takes
a hundred Russians to do the
manual labor of ten Ameri­cans,
he concluded.
Ladies Night’
The local Rotary Club 'will
present its semi-annual ladies
night program at the hotel
next Tuesday evening with
Miss Elizabeth Garber, for­mer
local history teacher, as
the speaker. She is presently
international relations secre­tary
of the League of Wom­en
Voters in Washington.
cil called a special meeting
last night to authorize repair­ing
the heating system.
As part of a general repair
program^ to the borough hall
council was consideing heating
system improvements, but the
broken boiler hastened the pro­cess,
...
Trucks of Lititz Fire Com­pany
have just moved back in­to
the apparatus room which
now has a new concrete floor.
Cost of replacing the floor was
$13,993.
Meanwhile progress on the
East Main Street water line
replacement was slowed when
rock formations were encoun­tered
in the installation of
laterals. Lititz . Machine Co.
workmen are digging the
trenches for laterals which,
are being installed by borough,
workers.
When all laterals are in­stalled
and two, fire hydrants
put in, the line will be ready
for testing in the first block
of E. Main Street.
Response
Indicates
Success
Chairman Says Early
Report Encouraging if
Pace Maintained
With the Lititz United Cam­paign
in its final week, drive
co-chairman report gifts equal­ing
approximately 60% of the
goal of $15,816 have been re­ceived.
“If the contributions re­ceived
from now on continue
to reflect the same increase
as thosee received to date,
the boro will realize its goal,”
according to Robert Hess,
chairman.
“If they run the same as
last year or less, chances are
we’ll go under.” This year's
goal is 10% higher than total
contributions in the boro last
year.
In the Residential Division,
most, volunteers have complet­ed
their calls. Reports are
slow in coming in, however,
and all volunteers are being
asked to complete all calls this
week.
The best news so far is from
the Industrial Division where
workers report a fine response
from local firms and their em­ployees.
Drive officials feel
that most local industries see
then eed and seem to feel
more than ever before an ob­ligation
to help make the
drive a success.
As one local industrial-con­tributor
put it, “If we don’t
support the work done by
these independent agencies,
the government will have to
take it over—then we’ll pay
for it in additional taxes.”
N. J. Fuhrman, chairman
of the Schools Division, re­ports
gifts are running slight­ly
higher than last year. Tins
division covers teachers and
employees of the high school,
elementary school, and Linden
Hall.
Pro Basketball
Day Proclaimed
Here Thursday
Thursday has been proclaim­ed
“Professional Basketball
Day” in Lititz by Burgess Ben­jamin
G. Forrest.
In observance of the day he
urged everyone to attend the
benefit game between the Phil­adelphia
Warriors and the
Minneapolis Lakes at the War­wick
High School gymnasium.
Proceeds from the game,
which is sponsored by the Lit­itz
Lions Club, go to the Re­creation
Center.’
Game time is 8:30 p.m. For
more details on the game,
which will be the first ever
played by two National Basket­ball
Assn, teams in Lancas­ter
County, bee the sports page.
CHANGE PARADE DATE
The Lititz Lions Club an­nounced
the date of the Hal­lowe’en
Parade has been
changed from Friday, October
30th to Thursday, October 29.
The Rain date is Saturday,
October 31.
Mrs. Snavely
President Of
Women’s Guild
Mrs. Joseph Snavely was
elected president of the Wo­men’s
Guild of the St. Luke’s
United Church of Christ at the
meeting held at her home on
Tuesday evening.
Other officers elected were,
•Mrs. Clair Zimmerman, vice-president.
Mrs. Isaac Stoner,
secretary; Mrs. Robert Balmer,
treasurer.
Mrs. Russell Markert was in
charge of devotions and the
program featured a panel on
"Courtship. Marriage, and the
Family.” The following parti­cipated,
Mrs. Joel Hartman,
Mrs. Clarence Rohrer. Mrs.
Clarence Troutman and Miss
Judy Markert.
Plans 'were made to hold a
service at the Zion Home with
the junior choir participating
and Mrs. Hartman in charge.
Mrs. Stoner was appointed
chairman of tile Phoebe Home
Auxiliary and plans for the
Thanksgiving offering service
to be held on Nov. 2 2 were
discussed. Mrs. Edna Sipple
will be the speaker and Mrs.
Robert Balmer in charge.
Next meeting will be Nov­ember
10 at tlie home of Mrs.
Rohrer with Mrs. James John­son
cohostess and Mrs. Stoner
pogram chairman.
CARL HUBER HOME
Carl D. Huber, Lititz RI,
returned home from St. Jo­seph’s
Hospital where he was
admitted for observation.
SURPRISE FIRE DRILL
A surprise fire drill was conducted at
Warwick schools during Fire Prevention
Week last week to test the rapidity with
which schools can be evacuated. At War­wick
High School students filed out of their
respective doors and back when at the
signal of fire. Students didn’t know in ad-vance
of the drill but evacuated the building
in about, a. minute while local firemen, Paul
F. Diehm, Theodore Stauffer Jr., and Am-mond
H. Shelly kept a check on them.
Students are assigned different exits so
that not one exit is overcrowded. Drills
were also held at the elementary schools. ..